capital expense
Example Sentences
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“But as the consumption meters start going on, you start to recoup a lot more of your capital expense and start to see gross margins significantly improve.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
By comparison, machines look like a one-time capital expense — set it and forget it, is the goal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
That figure is just the capital expense — it doesn’t include the cost of running the trains.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2024
In a deregulated power market, developers have struggled with the enormous capital expense of building a power reactor.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2023
Where capital expense became a significant factor, larger commercial farms—known as “bonanza farms”—began to develop.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
